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Barbed wire guarding the entrance to a nuclear power station in Belgium
Global Politics
Is the risk of nuclear terror on the rise?
Peter Hoare diving in the Azores among a pod of sperm whales.
Environment
A close encounter of the underwater kind
Researchers, seen through a window, work at Cuba's Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Havana, 2015.
Science
How a Communist island nation became a biotech powerhouse
A pregnant woman
Global Politics
Here’s what happens in a country where women are punished for having abortions
Toronto MC Jahkoy.
Music
Jahkoy’s music is his personal experiment and his home studio — a laboratory
In 1888 Katz's Deli was the first Jewish American delicatessen to open in New York.
Culture
Pastrami on rye: A full-length history of the Jewish deli
uswnt olympic 2016
Sports
US women’s team files wage discrimination act against US Soccer
A Donald Trump supporter outside a rally at the Dayton International Airport in Dayton, Ohio.
Economics
Trump vows to ‘break’ NAFTA, but many workers may owe their jobs to free trade
Conflict
Daby Touré’s new record ‘Amonafi’ is an homage to the displaced
Otto Skorzeny: Nazi hero and Mossad agent
Conflict
How a famous former Nazi officer became a hitman for Israel
Still image from film "Jahar"
Conflict
Two young filmmakers grapple with their high school memories of the Boston marathon bomber
Residents at Naruna Estates say they're being forced out of their homes in an echo of an apartheid-era policy. The government says not at all -- they're just not paying their rent.
Development
Some South Africans facing eviction say it feels like an apartheid-era policy
A Malaysian artists's caricatures of the scandal plagued prime minister as a sinister clown have spurred a wider protest.
Arts
Malaysian street artist makes a clown of prime minister
Protests
Justice
Hundreds of thousands marched for immigrant rights a decade ago. What’s happened since?
Bashar and Putin
Global Politics
Did Vladimir Putin save the day for Syria? Or create a bigger challenge?
Euro 2016 gets underway in France from June 10 to July 10.
Sports
Expect tight security at the upcoming Euro 2016 soccer tournament in France
Protestors gathered at a small rally in support of Apple's refusal to help the FBI access the cell phone of a gunman involved in the killings of 14 people in San Bernardino, California in February.
Justice
Did an Israeli digital forensics firm unlock the San Bernardino attacker’s cellphone?
A placard reading Molenbeek with a "peace and love sign" is seen in a shopping street in the suburb of Molenbeek, after security was tightened in Belgium following the attacks in Paris in November.
Culture
It’s not a den of terrorists. Here’s a different picture of Molenbeek
Guatemalan rapper Rebeca Lane is on a Central American tour designed to showcase women's hip-hop in the area.
Music
This Guatemalan rapper thinks hip-hop can unite all women
A lobster sits in a holding bin before having its claws banded onboard the lobster boat "Wild Irish Rose" in the waters off Cape Elizabeth, Maine August 21, 2013.
Business
The Swedes want North American lobster out. And the Americans are fighting back.
A mural of a farmer on a building, with a McDonald's in the background
Economics
Black farmers in Detroit are growing their own food. But they’re having trouble owning the land.
Right-wing demonstrators protest against terrorism in front of the old stock exchange in Brussels, Belgium, March 27. 2016.
Conflict
Anti-Muslim searches spike again after Brussels attacks
Saudi Arabia Uncovered
Conflict
Saudi activists use secret cameras to show repression by authorities
A flint arrowhead embedded a full inch into an upper arm bone. This was the first find at the site.
Conflict
Brutal Bronze Age battle discovery changes understanding of history
Forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad flash victory signs and carry a Syrian national flag on the edge of the historic city of Palmyra in Homs Governorate, in this handout picture provided by SANA on March 26, 2016.
Conflict
Syria recaptures the ancient city of Palmyra from ISIS
Tablet computers are set up inside Giotto's bell tower (one of the principal monuments on the Piazza del Duomo) in Florence, Italy. The app allows visitors to create digital graffiti using a virtual pen, paintbrush, or spraycan.
Technology
Florence tackles the problem of grafitti with ‘playful, persuasive’ technology
People gather at the Place de la Bourse to pay tribute to the victims of bomb attacks in Brussels.
Conflict
A Belgian father from Morocco talks to his sons about the Brussels attacks
Music
This ‘Tex-Mex, Gringa’ musician is proud to carry on the family name
This photo was supposed to be selfie proof of Martin Szwed's claim of skiing solo to the South Pole in just 14 days. He later said the photo was a montage.
Sports
Is the pressure to set new records turning polar adventure into a lying game?
A coffin for a victim in Lahore
Conflict
A blasphemy dispute preceded the deadly attack on Lahore
"The exhibit is a metaphor: By donating your flash drive and plugging it into Kim Jong-un’s face, you are helping to silence his propaganda machine by giving the North Korean people a window to the outside world."
Global Politics
Fighting North Korea’s dictatorship through flash drives
Protesters stand outside of the courthouse before an Ontario judge found former Canadian radio host Jian Ghomeshi not guilty on four sexual assault charges and one count of choking.
Justice
What’s behind the ‘not guilty’ verdict in the Jian Ghomeshi sex assault trial?
Romanian shepherds insist newly passed laws are an attack on centuries of sheep-rearing and their culture and traditions.
Culture
Are they going to let government take away their dogs? Not without a fight.
A near empty chocolate shop in downtown Brussels on Good Friday, March 25, 2016.
Culture
It’s a struggle to celebrate Easter this year in Belgium
A woman places carnations at the scene of a suicide bombing at Istiklal Street, a major shopping and tourist district, in central Istanbul, Turkey.
Conflict
By the numbers: The terror attacks we paid attention to
Orthodox Jewish men in costume read from a scroll of the biblical Book of Esther for the Jewish carnival holiday of Purim. The story tells the tale of an ancient Persian king whose viceroy hatches a plot to kill the Jews of the kingdom, a plot that is thw
Belief
Iranians and Israelis are in a battle over history — and the holiday of Purim
Belgians gather at vigil after latest terror attack
Conflict
Europe’s lame counterterrorism efforts: It must build links to its Muslim communities
Abaaoud ordered fighters to shoot into crowds of civilians
Conflict
The hunt for ISIS’s European mastermind
Gonzalez locked to a vehicle with a chain around her neck, being interview by a reporter.
Justice
‘Detained because my name was Gonzalez’
Bilal and Ahmed
Conflict
A young Yemeni man wants you to know how war changed his life
People look through a hole caused by a Saudi-led air strike
Conflict
Is the latest Yemen ‘ceasefire’ for real? Or just another red herring?
Banners are hanging all over Istanbul with different messages of unity and anti-terrorism. This one says, "We are one against terror."
Conflict
Turks ‘will not get used to’ terror attacks in their country
Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.
Global Politics
Today’s Kerry-Putin photo op doesn’t mean Moscow is coming in from the cold
A Belgian soldier stands guard in front of a book store in central Brussels
Conflict
Turkey says it arrested, flagged and deported a Belgian who went on to become one of the Brussels bombers
Why was Belgium so slow to catch a suspected terrorist?
Conflict
Why Belgium is vulnerable to attacks
Men dance as others spray colored powder on them during Holi celebrations in India.
Environment
How do you celebrate Holi in the middle of a drought?
Johan Cruyff of the Netherlands during a World Cup qualifier match between the Netherlands and Belgium on october 26, 1977 at the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdams.
Sports
How Johan Cruyff changed soccer into ‘Total Football’
Ibrahim Esmael Ibrahim at the train station in Idomeni, Greece. As a teenager, he worked as a translator with the US military in Iraq.
Conflict
An Iraqi translator for the US military is now stuck in Greece
Geraldine Henneghien
Conflict
‘It’s the whole family that is destroyed’
Crowds gather on the steps of the old Brussels stock exchange, Place de la Bourse.
Conflict
Scenes from Belgium’s new normal
Ismaël Saidi
Conflict
‘We were just waiting for the storm to come’
Parisians observe a moment of silence in front of City Hall in honor of the Belgian victims and their own.
Conflict
For many in Paris, the attacks in Brussels brings up recent memories of their own tragedy
Obama does the tango with a dancer in Buenos Aires
Global Politics
The presidential tango: Was this really the right time for Obama to visit Argentina?
Three men suspected in the Brussels bombings
Conflict
‘There is no sign…these people are about to blow themselves up into smithereens’
Belgian flags seen at a street memorial service near the old stock exchange in Brussels following Tuesday's bomb attacks
Conflict
How terrorists exploit family ties to recruit and retain members
Phife Dawg Performs At Tattoo.
Music
How A Tribe Called Quest’s ‘Funky Diabetic’ tapped hip-hop’s Caribbean roots
Omar Hernandez in downtown Moscow. He says problems that came from speaking his mind too freely in Cuba led him to leave in the early 90s. Now he's lives in Russia.
Culture
Is Russia’s romance with Cuba coming to an end?
Markets factoring in terror attacks?
Business
New world: market traders factoring in terrorism
President Barack Obama and his family with Cuban President Raul Castro at an exhibition baseball game between the Cuban National team and the MLB Tampa Bay Rays in Havana.
Global Politics
Obama to Cuba: ‘I have come here to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas’
The Eiffel Tower is seen with the black, yellow and red colours of the Belgian flag in tribute to the victims of today's Brussels bomb attacks, in Paris, France, March 22, 2016.
Conflict
Belgium’s allies respond to attacks with calls for unity